Here is a summary of what was announced in San Francisco 2014…

EVO-RAIL:
Previously called Marvin in the press, this Hyper-converged infrastructure appliance is designed by VMware and built/sold by hardware vendors providing EVO: RAIL compatible hardware with VMware software on top. Purpose: SMB customers, ready in 15 min, scalable and complete in 1 SKU Competition: Nutanix, Simplivity, Scale Computing, Maxta,…EVO: RAIL Software included: vSphere Enterprise Plus & ESXi, vCenter Server, VMware VSAN, EVO: RAIL management GUI & vCenter Log InsightHardware specifications:

• 2U 4-nodes hardware platform optimized for EVO:RAIL and provided by selected OEM partners.
• Dual CPU sockets.
• Memory: Up to 192 Gb
• 16 Tb of storage on VSAN (HDDs & Flash)
• Automated Scale-Out up to 4 nodes (HCIAs), that can support up to 400 server VMs or 1 000 VDI VMs

1st OEMs announcing EVO:RAIL HCIA: EMC, Fujitsu, Dell & SuperMicro

vCloud Suite v5.8:

• Improved business continuity & disaster recovery.
• improved SRM integration with vCAC, SRM can be now offered as a Service in vCAC’s self-service portal

vCloud Automation Center 6.1 is announced

• Enhanced next-gen apps, such as Big Data Extensions for Hadoop 2.
• Improved interoperability with NSX.
• New proactive support: free Support Assistant vCenter plug-in.

vSphere 6.0: (beta)

• Fault Tolerance will support 4 CPUs
• Cross vCenter vMotion support
• Long distance vMotion is enhanced
• Using NSX, network properties now be kept on long distance vMotion
• Openstack VIO (VMware Integrated Openstack, Beta) A standard Openstack in virtual appliance (OVA) that makes it easy for IT to run an enterprise-grade OpenStack on top of their existing VMware infrastructure.

VMware vRealizeTM:
vCenter Management family products are renamed under vRealizeTM brand
vRealizeTM Suite is a Cloud Management Platform Suite

• vRealize Operations Insight: add-on for vSphere with Operations Management (vSOM)
• vRealize Air: SaaS offering for vCloud Automation Center
• vRealize Suite: Complete set of VMware management products

Rebranding examples: vCloud Automation Center (vCAC) = vRealize Automation & vCenter Orchestrator (vCO) = vRealize Orchestrator…
vRealize Suite is the next step in the evolution of VMware’s cloud management family, shifting from a product to a platform strategy

End-User Computing:

• VMware, NVIDIA & Google agreement for Graphics-Rich Applications.
• VMware and SAP Collaborate around Mobile Security & Mobile Apps.
• Workspace Suite: Mobile, Desktop and Content Management unified.
• New Horizon DaaS Services and Expansion to Europe

vCloud Air (formerly vCHS):
In addition to existing IaaS, DaaS and DRaaS offering (see vCloud AirTM OnePager), VMware announced new services:

• DevOps as a service
• DBaaS: MS SQL and MySQL first. Other DB platforms will follow.
• Object based storage (based on ViPR): extremely scalable, cost
• effective, and durable storage for unstructured data.
• Mobility Services:
  • with AirWatch: mobility management, mobile app develop…
  • with Pivotal CF Mobile Services.
• PaaS : based on Pivotal CF
• Cloud Management as a Service: vRealize Cloud Air Resources: